On this day 40 years ago, Siouxsie and the Banshees released their debut single, ‘Hong Kong Garden’. In a 2005 interview with Uncut magazine, Siouxsie had this to say about the song::
“I’ll never forget, there was a Chinese restaurant in Chislehurst called the ‘Hong Kong Garden’. Me and my friend were really upset that we used to go there and like, occasionally when the skinheads would turn up it would really turn really ugly. These gits would just go in en masse and just terrorise these Chinese people who were working there. We’d try and say ‘Leave them alone’, you know. It was a kind of tribute”. Continue reading
Creases Like Knives 